Weekly Writing Challenges: Microprose Archive

Welcome to YeahWrite’s microprose challenge archives, a collection of microfiction prompts, responses, and competitions. For 500 weeks YeahWrite hosted “weekly grids” which enabled writers to link their self-hosted responses, and to read and vote on each others’ work, as well as commenting. From 2014-2016 this challenge ran as a weekly prompted 42-word story and poetry challenge. From 2017-2020, the challenge featured prose only with unique prompts and word counts and ran once per month. While we no longer host competition grids, we’re still delivering the prompts you love as well as our Super Challenge and classes. Stop by our latest posts to see this week’s prompt, live every Friday at noon US Eastern Time.
yeah write #198 writing challenge: challenge winners

yeah write #198 writing challenge: challenge winners

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Come one, come all, to the Greatest Show on Earth! Or at least the greatest little writing challenge on the internet. Welcome back under our striped tent, where the writers cavort and the voters swing from trapezes and...

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yeah write #198 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #198 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Welcome, one and all (and especially you new folks) to the three-ring circus that is the yeah write #198 popular vote! We've got lions and tigers and bears - oh my! -...

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yeah write #197 writing challenge: challenge winners

yeah write #197 writing challenge: challenge winners

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Just because. Wow, I haven't thought about that phrase in a while. As an adult and a grammarian it makes me cringe a little inside. As a child, it could mean anything, good or bad: Mom, why can't I have any more pixie...

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yeah write #197 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #197 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Welcome back, o intrepid writers and readers. Did you stay up late to catch the opening of the vote? Are you in a different time zone than I am and this is a perfectly...

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yeah write #196 writing challenge: challenge winners

yeah write #196 writing challenge: challenge winners

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]"Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written," Marilyn Manson has said. Personally, I doubt it; few writers would have the imagination to invent him. But the truth is a gold mine for writers, as our nonfiction...

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yeah write #196 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #196 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Holy crap, half the first month of 2015 is gone. That means you can't say "Happy New Year!" any more when you see people. Please. For all our sakes. 2015 has already...

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